Initiative Quotes · Page 12

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.

— Walter Lippmann

Nobody wants a nanny state, where the government is stamping out initiative and telling us what to do, but the idea that…

— Van Jones

We look for people who are passionate about something. In a way, it almost doesn’t matter what you’re passionate about. What we…

— Mark Zuckerberg

People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every…

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation -…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm just natural with initiative, with instinct. Paediatricians have said so themselves.

— Jo Frost

Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I think our initiative with respect to education and economic development can work in Saudi Arabia and it is up to the…

— Colin Powell

Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.

— Orlando Aloysius Battista

Any man of energy and initiative can get what he wants out of life. But when initiative is crippled by legislation or…

— Anonymous

A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it…

— John Dewey

Our Government is committed to supporting Canadian businesses as they grow, innovate and generate high-value jobs - in the West and across…

— Michelle Rempel

A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

— Banksy

I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding…

— George W. Bush

Let's face it. There is no setup in Pakistan to train and groom young players at the grassroots level in different sports.…

— Jahangir Khan

Take the life issue. This issue requires a president and an administration leading our nation to understand the importance of life. This…

— George W. Bush

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

— Anonymous

These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the…

— Jean Moulin

Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening…

— Harlan Cleveland

A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem.

— James Marcus Bach

The more you simplify, the better people will perform. People can not understand and keep track of a long complicated set of…

— Keith Rabois

Even before President [Barack] Obama announced actions aimed at tightening controls on gun purchases, sales were up, partly in reaction to terrorist…

— Rachel Martin

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.

— Richard M. Nixon

In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.

— Joseph C. Rost

Let’s start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find…

— T. Colin Campbell